Category: Historical Fiction

Melissa Kwasny | Trees Call for What They Need | This is the story of three women born at the turn of the century and their lives in Town of Pines: Nettie, a woolen mill worker and tenant farmer; Aun

Bryher | Gate To The Sea | Gate to the Sea is said to take place in the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death, though there’s nothing in the text to date the story. It’s a sl

Bryher | Gate To The Sea | Gate to the Sea is said to take place in the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death, though there’s nothing in the text to date the story. It’s a sl

Sherwood Anderson | Poor White (A Revived Modern Classic) | Brief but very sympathetic portrait of the lesbian, Kate Chancellor; the hero’s wife, Clara, is briefly captivated by Kate during her college days

Valerie Miner | All Good Women | From Publishers Weekly

On the eve of World War II, four young women, students at a San Francisco secretarial school, become housemates. They are l

Justine Saracen | The Witch Of Stalingrad | As the German Blitzkrieg brings the Soviet Union to its knees in 1942, a regiment of women aviators flies out at night in flimsy aircraft without para

Brenda Adcock | Soiled Dove | In 1872, sixteen-year-old Loretta Digby fled her home in Indiana to escape an abusive step-father. Rescued from the streets of St. Joseph, Missouri by

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah |

Winner of the 1971 American Library Assoc.’s first Gay Book Award, later called Stonewall Book Award

Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel M

Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the aut

Helen Dunn | Untamed Women Of Yesteryear | Lesbian Fiction: Historical Short Stories – Erotic. Trucker: Set in 1975. Toni, a female trucker, in her twenties, stops at a late night café where sh